The new courses cover cybersecurity and SQL, and both offer a free certificate of completion.

In 2025, Udemy hit its first profitable year, but its Q4 2025 ended in a loss. A few days after announcing the numbers, the stock reached an all-time low. The company didn’t have an earnings call, nor did it release an investor presentation because of its pending merger with Coursera. The earnings call would have been helpful to break down the numbers, since the numbers look bleak from an investor’s perspective. The overall revenue has fallen for the first time since the company went public, a

How online courses providers shape their sites and content to appeal to the Google algorithm.

Swayam is India’s national online course platform, designed to support the country’s National Education Policy, which entails improving access to quality education in India. At Class Central, we’ve been paying attention to Swayam since the very beginning. It launched in beta in 2016, and has now reached over 56 million enrollments with over 5.2 million certificates issued. It’s been growing rather fast. Swayam offers courses in a wide variety of disciplines, including from prestigious institut

Analyzing the impact of China’s regulatory crackdown on the nation’s for-profit education industry.

Seven years after replacing a Yale president with a fintech CEO, Coursera picks an Amazon veteran to help fix its slowing growth and falling stock price.